BSG Wismut Gera

The BSG Gera bismuth (Ball Sports Community bismuth Gera ) is a football club from Gera in Thuringia. It was created in 2009 out of the FV Gera Süd, this earlier in 2007 from the merger of the football clubs FC Blau-Weiß Gera Gera and KFC dynamo with the football section of the first SV Gera. The latter succession Association of Former Sports Association was (BSG ) bismuth Gera.

  • 4.1 East German national football player from Gera
  • 4.2 Bundesliga players from Gera

Club development

In 1922 from a merger between the General Turngemeinde Gera and 1 VfR Gera, a new association called SpVgg Gera 04 On November 27, 1936, the SC Concordia Gera - Reuss joined the association, which from then on under the name SV Gera 04 took. This made ​​national attention with his football team by participating in the Gauliga.

The SV Gera was finally resolved as all sports clubs in the Soviet zone of occupation in the course of 1945, after the Second World War. To continue the sports operation, then founded the loosely organized sports community Gera - doors in 1949 in the Sports Association (SPA) Gera Süd transferred. On October 7, 1950, the BSG BSG merged with the RFT for BSG Gera Gera mechanics. With the introduction of the central sports associations took place on May 1, 1951 renamed BSG Motor Gera. On March 29, 1953, the BSG was acquired by the Wismut as a new carrier operation and then took the name of bismuth Gera. In addition to handball, swimming and boxing played football in the BSG the lead role. The section boxes, which was oriented competitive sports among other things, Ulli Wegner, was spun November 29, 1973 and combined with the cycling section of SG Dynamo Gera Centre for SG bismuth Gera.

After the political changes the ownership of the SDAG 1990 was set and members of the football section of the previous BSG founded the new football club (FSV) bismuth Gera. This was called on July 1, 1993 1 SV Gera order. 2003, the club was forced to declare bankruptcy. On 24 May 2007 resolved to the Gera football clubs FC Blau-Weiß Gera Gera and dynamo, as well as the football department of the first SV Gera to unite on 1 July 2007 as the new FV Gera Süd. The other divisions of 1st SV Gera remained. On 3 June 2009, the club in ball sports community (BSG ) bismuth Gera decided to rename.

Development of football

Before and after the Second World War

For the first time joined the regional SV Gera 04 in appearance, when he was in the period between 1939 and 1943 in the middle Gauliga, the then highest German football league, played. He reached in his first season 1939/40, with his best finish in fourth. The SG Gera - gates participated in 1948/49, at the Thuringian Football Championship and finished second in the Season 1 with eight teams on the 5th Place. The disciples of SG Gera Süd participated in 1949 at the East Zone Cup competition and reached the first fdgb Football Cup final. There, the Gera documents in Halle ( Saale) BSG wagon Dessau 0:1. Then Gera Süd one of the founding teams in the newly founded by the German Sport Committee on the Soviet occupation zone highest soccer class league and reached in the first season 1949/50, among 14 teams ranked 11th, after four years of service in the Gera rose - from 1950 as BSG Motor and from 1953 antretend as SPAs bismuth - after the season 1952/53, as table from the Oberliga from.

Between second and excellence in the GDR

Until 1966 Gera played in the second-rate DDR League and placed mostly in the midfield. Only when Michael Strempel and Otto Skrowny met two talented football players to BSG bismuth, succeeded in the summer of 1966 to return to the league. Coach Manfred Kaiser, however, it was not possible to form a homogeneous team, for hardly a player he took on a permanent root position. With only four wins in 18 defeats Gera was relegated after only one year. This was followed by another ten seasons in the DDR -Liga, in which bismuth was found mostly among the best. 1974 with the oberliga experienced Gerhard Hoppe and 1975 in addition to the former league players Gerd Struppert failed the team still in the promotion round to the Oberliga. With the 41 - times national player Harald Irmscher 1977 but was again the rise achieved in the league. However, the league season 1977/78 was again a disaster, this time with only one win (1-0 away to bismuth Aue ) but 21 defeats, the BSG bismuth rose again after one year. Twice, in 1980 and 1983 reached bismuth unsuccessful the promotion round, then began a downward trend with the low 12th place in 1986. The last season of the GDR football game operation in 1990/91 joined the FSV bismuth as 6th in the League Season B from.

In the GDR football Cup bismuth Gera or its predecessor communities was represented in all 40 contests. In addition to the finals in 1949 Gera reached the quarterfinals, where there was a 3:5 defeat to the Oberliga FC Karl -Marx-Stadt in the competition in 1968/69. In addition, five more times the knockout stage has been reached.

In the DFB - play operation

With the first season under DFB Director of FSV bismuth Gera was classified into the then third-rate Oberliga Nordost. In 1996, the successor club SV Gera first rose into the fifth rate at that time national league Thuringia ( Thüringen later renamed League ) from. In the 1999/2000 season, there was once more an interlude in the big leagues, after the bankruptcy 2003 the association in the county league had to start over. Founded in 2007, the FV Gera Süd came in 2008 under coach Udo grain promotion to the now sechstklassige Thuringia league.

End of March 2013 gave the club announced its intention to exercise its right ascension in the league no use.

The women's team of BSG bismuth Gera played in the season 2010/ 11 together with the team of the 1st FC Gera Gera SG 03 as also in the fifth division. In April 2011, the women's team of the previous SG Gera was spun off as a separate club FFC Gera and has been increasing since the start of the 2011/12 season under that name in the game operation part.

Logo History

FSV bismuth Gera (1990-1993)

1 SV Gera (1993-2007)

FC Blau-Weiß Gera (1990-2007)

FV Gera Süd (2007-2009)

Stadium

The BSG bismuth Gera uses the urban " stadium at the dock " with 7,500 standing room and 450 seats. It is located south of the city on the main road 92 Prior to the merger, it was the venue of the FC Blau-Weiss. During the communist era it was called the " Arthur Becker Stadium " and was in the 1950 home of the former BSG bismuth, before they moved into the larger " Stadion der Freundschaft ".

People

East German national football player from Gera

Until the 1970s Gera was the starting point for later GDR national players in other teams:

  • Dieter Erler ( 47 matches for FC Karl- Marx-Stadt )
  • Harald Irmscher (41, BSG Motor Zwickau, FC Carl Zeiss Jena)
  • Manfred Kaiser (31, BSG bismuth Aue )
  • Bringfried Müller (18, BSG bismuth Aue )
  • Michael Strempel (15, FC Carl Zeiss Jena)
  • Georg Buschner (6, FC Carl Zeiss Jena and later coach )
  • Horst Freitag (1, BSG bismuth Aue )

Bundesliga players from Gera

  • Carsten Klee (FC Carl Zeiss Jena, SpVgg Greuther Fürth, SSV Reutlingen, FC Hansa Rostock)
  • Karsten Böttcher ( FC Carl Zeiss Jena, FC Rot -Weiß Erfurt, Vestenbergsgreuth )
  • Tobias Werner ( FC Carl Zeiss Jena, FC Augsburg)
  • Florian Trinks (SV Werder Bremen, SpVgg Greuther Fürth )
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